My first book manuscript, The Global Filipina Body: Gendered and Sexual Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (under advance contract with the University of Illinois Press), “queers” the ubiquitous figure of the global Filipina body through an analysis of several figures of Filipina/o transnationalism - the Filipina "mail order bride," the "trafficked" woman, the Filipina/o American balikbayan (expatriate), and the cyborg - within Filipina/o American performance, video/film, and websites. The Global Filipina Body explores the political possibilities and tensions between diasporic support for revolutionary nationalisms and feminist and queer critiques of the nation. Offering a serious consideration of the political potential of revolutionary, diasporic nationalisms as a form of resistance to U.S. imperialism and capitalist globalization, The Global Filipina Body examines the gendered and sexual politics of representing the nation within Filipina/o diasporic cultural production.